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l ,1 15,172. Patented 0ct.27,1914

ALBERT CASH, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

oLoTH-oUTTEws HOLDER.

Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2?, 31914.,

Application filed November 21, 1913. i Serial No. 802373.

To all 'whom 'it may camera:

Be it known that I, ALBERT CASH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Cloth-Cutters Holder, of which the following is a specification. i

The present invention appertains to a fabric holding device for use in connection with cutting tables, such 'as are enployed in shoe shops, shirt 'actories, tailoring establishments, and the like.

It is the custom, at the present day, in many cutting shops for the cutter to have several staeks or piles of cloth adjoining his table, from which it is his duty to select and cut the blanks, and it has been the practice in such cases for the cutter when working V upon one material, to throw the slack or free portion of the other materials back onto the respective stacks or piles, while that material being cut, has its free portion drawn onto the cutter s table and weighted thereon by any suitable article that is handy. Then, when the cutter is through with one character of material, he releases the free portion thereof from the table, and permits the slack to be hrown back onto the respective stack or pile, so that the neXt material to be cut, may be drawn over onto the cutter s table. This method, which is in Vogue, is bunglesome and burdensome, and is objectionable for several obvious reasons. In other cutting shops, the several stacks or piles of ma-` may be cut from the several materials, without unnecessary duplicity. Thus, with the ordinary manner of handling the several materials, the slack portions of the materials not in use, would be liable to become disarranged, so that the p'lies would not be in proper condition to be readily placed or drawn onto the cutter s table for operation.

lVith the foregoing and other disadvantages in view, it has been the object of the present invention to provide a simple and efi'icient device adapted to be disposed adjoining the end of the cuttefls table and so constructed and operable as to hold the slack or free portions of the several ma terials in proper and convenient positions, whereby the several materials may be readily drawn onto the cutters table, and wheredevice, as in use.

by the slack portions may be let loose, without the liability of any disarrangement.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of Construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, wherein- F igure 1 is a side elevation of the holding Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the end portion of a cutters table l, is illustrated.

The improved holding device embodies a pair of elongated sides 2 supported above the floor by means of the legs 3 attached to the ends of the said sides, said sides and legs forming a frame for the rollers hereinafter described. The frame is adapted to bedisposed endwise adjoining the end of the cutter s table 1, with the sides 2 approXimately flush with the sides of the table, it being noted that the top of the frame is open between the sides 2, and that the sides of the frame are open below the side members 'for convenience in placing the material onto the floor, as will hereinafter appear. A transverse roller 4 is disposed between the sides 2 of the frame adjoining the forward end of the iframe, and has the terminal trunnions 5 journaled through the sides 2. A transverse roller 6 is disposed above the roller t, and has the terminal trunnions 7 disposed in the inclined upwardly opening slots 8 provided in the upper edge portions of the sides 2, whereby the roller 6 will be free to move vertically to and from the roller l. A transverse roller l' is disposed between the sides 2 of the frame adjoining the rear end of said frame, and is provided with the terminal trunnions 5 journaled through the sides 2, while a pair of movable transverse rollers 6' and 6" are disposed in a plane above the plane of the roller 4:', and have the terminal trunnions 7 engaging within the slots 8 of the sides 2. The rollers 6' and 6" are adapted to rest against the roller 4', at opposite sides thereof, as clearly seen in Fig. 1. The rollers are preferably constructed of Wood, or similar material,

although the upper removable rollers .6, .6' and 6" may be weighted to 'facilitate their gravitation against the respective rollers't and 4'.

floor below the respective rollers, the free portion lO of 'the stack &being passed between the rollers &and &the ;tree portion 10' of the stack 49 ;being passed between the rollers l' and i, and the free portion 10" ofthe stack 9" :being passed between the rollers 4' 'and 6". It wi ll'be apparen't that the upper movable rollers'G, x6' andfi" :may be Conveniently raised 'to permit the ;tree portions of 'the several materials to ibe 'passed thereunder, the rollers'6, G' and 6" *droppng against the respective 'rollers l and 4:', to hold the free portions lol* the materials in place. Thua-the slack portions between the ro'llers and the several .Stacks wi l l'be properly supported, and the flap or free portions 11, ll 'a nd 11" of ;the respective materials may be dropped over the rollers without "becoming en-tangled or mussed. l he several materials may be readi-ly drawn onto the table 1, the rol lers i supporting the material in such a manner,

that there Will be little or no tendency for the free .portion :to slip oli of the table, so

i that .a 'weight need not necessarily be employed -for holding the material on' the table. As an example 'of the use of :the present device, supposing'the stack 9 contained material arranged .in two p'lies, thestack 9' four ply material, and the stack 9 six -ply 'material, then, the cutter could readily draw the :several .materials onto the -table, so tha-t two, four or six duplicate blanks could 'be cut simu ltaneously. 'This is highly desirable in 'many cutting shops, wherein an article comprisestwo duplicate blanks, of one character, four :duplicate `b'lanks of'another character, and so .on. In connection, it will 'ibe observed that 'When the several materials are not in use, there will be no :tendency for the plies to become disarranged, as would be obous designs or qualities, so that the cutter may readily select the material desired, the y several materials always being at hand.

'The number of rollers may be increased 'or diminished, according to the number of materials to be held, and the rollers may also be of various leng-ths for accommodating 'variouswidthsof material. In ordinary use, 'however, ;the rollers being approXima tely of a lengthequal to -the width'of the cutters table, -Wil l accommodate the standartl Widths of goods. t e

From the foregoing, taken in 'connection With thedrawings, it 'will be evident that the present device is a desirable and advantageous one for the purposes intended, and avoids the .objections incident to the ordinary or usual manner of handling the several materials.

Having thus'described 'the invention, what is c'la med'as new 'is: s

A holding device for cutting tables, em-

bodying a frame, one end of'which is adapted to 'be disposed adjoining the end of a cutting table, and including elongated sides,

and .legs attached to the ends thereof, a roller having terminal trunn'ons ournaled to the -sides, the sides having upwardly opening slots inclined toward the said end of the slack portion to pass onto the cutting table.

In testimony'that I claim the foregoing as 'my own, 'I have hereto afi'ixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

` ALBERT CASH. Witnesses:

FRANCOIS XAVIER 'BEDIAN, JUANrTo DoUGLAss VVILLIAMS.

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